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Hi All.  I have developed a Windows-based software application that will enable singers to practice more effectively between rehearsals.  It is now ready for testing, and I am currently looking for choir directors to test it with their choirs.  Testers will receive free copies of the software when it is released.  Please contact me if […]

On www.wozimusic.com there are lots of choral pieces of Josef Wolfgang Ziegler and Wolfgang Ziegler. All sample scores can be downloaded completely for free. There are secular, sacred and folk music pieces. There are MIDI files or recordings available. Some of the scores are published in Germany and Japan, but most of them by wozimusic.com. […]

  Fidelio Musica edicion has recently published the world’s first edition of Mass Pro defunctis by the Portuguese composer Pedro de Escobar also known as Pedro do Porto.  Escobar’s requiem is the first iberian Requiem and one of the first in Europe to follow the example of Johannes Ockeghem’s Requiem. According to the musicologists Tess […]

I am a middle and high school choral director for a small town in northern Oklahoma. I am in my 3rd year of teaching and have experienced a good amount of success as the head of this program in the past two years. I am now beginning to encounter something I didn’t quite expect.. Last […]

By Janelle Gelfand CINCINNATI — It’s Monday morning, and 55 members of the Winton Woods High School Varsity Ensemble are rocking and finger-snapping a little too boisterously through “Ghostbusters.” “This is not about you having a party. This is about you performing for them,” says director David Bell, pointing to their invisible audience. Winton Woods […]

Does anyone know of an SSA or SA arrangement of “Come Ready and See Me” by Richard Hundley.  Fell in love with the song recently and would like for my ladies’ chorale to sing it in the spring.  I know it is published by Boosey and Hawkes but could not locate an SSA version.  Thank […]

Has anyone out there used shape-note singing as a way of teaching solfegge? Have students been able to transition to traditional notation with any success?

Friends – I need to fill out a program, and am surprised, but am not finding what I need. I’ve checked the repertoire archives and so many of the works are for larger brass ensembles.   I thought I’d seen someone say that there’s a Vivaldi Gloria arranged for Brass accompaniment, but again, couldn’t find […]

I’m two weeks in to an after-school high school choir administered and funded by a federal grant program.  I set up a Facebook page for the choir to share YouTubes of our songs, notices, etc. I also set up a ReverbNation page, where I can post practice tracks.  The administrator of the program has told […]

Did anyone read the Letters to the Editor for the most recent Choral Journal?  I’m curious to see what the reaction to Bill Dehning’s rant was.  My disgust about the article itself was short-lived as I (we all) can read between those lines.  However, my disgust for the CJ editors for printing it is still […]